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christephens
9,470 PointsDo more of this please
Dave,
First I want to say all the teachers have been awesome so far, but you just took number one in my book. Thank you for setting up this challenge. I wish there was more like it.
I think there should be challenge videos where treehouse staff gives us structured mock projects to complete. You could link to the appropriate videos. Then have a second video that shows how you completed the project.
Even if you don't do anything like this I will still keep my subscription. I have learned so much from this site in the month I have had it. Thanks again.
Chris
11 Answers
Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherThanks chrisstephens3 for the compliment! Interesting suggestion about having more mock projects -- I'll talk it over with the team.
(thanks for the tag Sean Gaffney )
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsI love having challenges like this! This is how we truly learn how to code by having to figure out the solutions ourselves instead of just following along with videos and doing tiny challenges. I agree with everyone and say please do more of these in all courses! :D
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsNo problem, and you are an awesome instructor!
Bad Idea PH
14,031 PointsI agree! More projects like this please! :)
Jonathan Weinstein
9,063 PointsAgreed. This course was AWESOME.
Clinton Baker
9,344 PointsI whole heartedly agree. This was a nice project to take a short break to work on, and I would love to have more projects thrown at us in the future!
sakatagintoki
12,624 PointsI also +1 rep this thread.
TJ Egan
14,420 PointsAgain, agreed. Loved these mini projects, as well as the ones in the JS courses as well.
Zach Allan
19,452 PointsYes! This course has been my favourite so far! So well done.
Alexander Hamilton
8,169 PointsAs a teacher at a university, I can say these projects are crucial to student learning- creating code in a way that is not point blank repeating the prior video is fundamental to understanding it.
Rachelle Wood
15,362 PointsYes indeed, I agree with all the others in this thread. I also like that this is not set up within the Treehouse challenge webpage program. I could do the challenges in my external text editor that way for the Java Basics course and the Java Loops and Arrays course. I did not set up the local server on my machine for being able to do that with this course though. The third aspect I like about these challenges is that you do them for yourself and is not tied to any Treehouse score. Good job Dave McFarland!
Teena Abbott
21,054 PointsI agree with what the others have posted here. These type of challenges really get your mind to think like a Developer not just a student.
Sean Gaffney
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,560 PointsSean Gaffney
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,560 Points/cc Dave McFarland